Twenty years of hunting exoplanets has given us nearly 2000 chunks of non-fusing rock and gas.  It’s also given us the statistics to show that the galaxy is likely to be filled to the brim with other worlds, giving incredible potential for finding other Earths and maybe even other life.  The latest discoveries involve the use of better technology, more intuitive methods, and more comprehensive searches.  This means that we aren’t just discovering planets that are further from Earth, we are finding the ones that are nearby, but small enough to have been hidden, until now. The red dwarf star...